[EM] Proportional representation.

[Richard Lung]

I think you are right. That's why Switzerland has PR of the executive as 
well as the legislature. Also Northern Ireland with its power-sharing 
executive.
The UN knows that majority rule would not work, but that east and West 
must rule together.

From
Richard.

On 04/08/2016 22:35, Kevin Venzke wrote:
> I do not think proportionality of seats won would be sufficient for an 
> outcome to be called proportional/equitable. If you elect 
> representatives to a legislative chamber that makes decisions by 
> majority rule, you could reasonably fear that there will not be 
> proportionality of "benefit" received from the policies enacted, no 
> matter how you elected the representatives.
>
> Kevin
>
>
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> *De :* Richard Lung <voting at ukscientists.com>
> *À :* EM <election-methods at lists.electorama.com>
> *Envoyé le :* Mercredi 3 août 2016 14h08
> *Objet :* [EM] Proportional representation.
>
>
> To all,
> Social choice theory seems to deny fairness of elections without an 
> adequate fairness criterion. The Oxford dictionary defines fair as 
> equitable, which is to say proportional. Obviously, then, according to 
> social choice theory there is no fair electoral system, because its 
> rules do not allow for the proportional count criterion of fairness. 
> (It is based on preference voting - necessary but not sufficient - 
> Iain Maclean, Democracy and New Technology.)
> It recently occured to me that social choice theory is an ethnocentric 
> apology for the hounding of proportional representation from some 20 
> American cities.
>
> From
> Richard Lung.
>
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Richard Lung.

E-books (mostly available free or reader-sets-price)
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Democracy Science (starting with electoral reform and research);
Commentaries (literature and liberty; science and democracy);
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